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Last week word got out that one Soviet star had daringly snarled the party line. He was no less a personage than Choreographer Igor Moiseyev, whose dance troupe scored a notable triumph in the U.S. last year (TIME, May 12). At home last December he stepped to the podium in Moscow's House of Actors and delivered an amazing travelogue. Said he: Even the most informed Russians are badly mistaken about U.S. culture...
...Moiseyev began by saying he would leave discussion of U.S. shortcomings to those ''responsible for such things." i.e., Communist propagandists. Then he spoke glowingly of Broadway's musicals (West Side Story, My Fair Lady), the cornucopia of Manhattan's super-drugstores, the infectious tempo of Manhattan's streets and the variety of its restaurants, the ingenious design of U.S. highways (better than Germany's), the superb discipline of orchestras accompanying his dancers, the "children's land of enchantment" in California's Disneyland. Moiseyev was not without a few gay barbs. He tweaked...
...Sullivan Show (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). A rerun of last year's show featuring Russia's brilliant Moiseyev Dancers...
...Ginger Rogers Show (CBS, 9-10 p.m.).-Grand news: Old Hoofer Rogers kicks up her heels on TV, with the uplifting presence of Ray Bolger to help her over the jumps. The antique Ritz Brothers may need even more help as they try to parody Russia's superb Moiseyev Dance Company. Unfortunately missing from the party: Fred Astaire, who starts his own new show this week (see below...
...meritorious service in developing Soviet art," the U.S.S.R. awarded the Order of Lenin to wiry Choreographer Igor Moiseyev, director of the whirling, high-jumping folk-dance troupe that wowed U.S. audiences on its coast-to-coast tour last spring...